Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
This Day in History
U.S. embassies bombed in E. Africa; Congress OKs powers to expand the Vietnam War; The Battle of Guadalcanal begins; Kon-Tiki ends its journey; Comedy icon Oliver Hardy and news anchor Peter Jennings die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, ‘You can’t say that.’
Breakfast News
Venezuela troops quash anti-Maduro attack on military base
Welcome boost from China to global pressure on North Korea
Russia ready for more engagement with US, despite sanctions
Activists protest Rio water, filthy despite Olympic promises
Syrian forces make gains in energy-rich Homs province
https://apnews.com/37c222c70ef54e25a6c0388d9aa58be9/Fire-strikes-another-tower-in-the-Dubai-Marina
New Orleans floods raise questions about city pumping system
Apparent tornado leaves destruction in Tulsa; 13 injured
Growing bear population means thousands more teeth to sort
Illinois governor signs law to honor Barack Obama’s birthday
Nation’s oldest coal-fired steamboat returns to Mystic River
Breakfast Blogs
Update: Jeff Sessions Is Still a Retrograde Authoritarian Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
MalwareTech’s FBI-Induced Tour to Milwaukee, WI emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The “Liberal” NY Times Focuses on the Next Disastrous GOP Daddy bmaz, emptywheel
NRA anti-elite “populism” is nothing new digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Maybe they are laughing at us Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Republican Establishment Was And Is All-In On TrumpLawyers, Guns and Money
Why the Right-Wing War on George Soros Matters dnexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
ONLY TWO THINGS CAN DENY TRUMP THE 2020 NOMINATION: INFIRMITY AND IMPEACHMENT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog